Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. CarlylePast and Present. Ch. VI.

Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximæ sunt, certissimæque divitiæ. Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. CiceroParadoxa. 6. 3.

And to hie him home, at evenings close,To sweet repast, and calm repose. * * *From toil he wins his spirits light,From busy day the peaceful night;Rich, from the very want of wealth,In heavens best treasures, peace and health. GrayOde on the Pleasure Arising from Vissisitude. L. 87. Last two lines said to have been added by the Rev. William Mason, Grays biographer.

A little house well filld, a little land well tilld, and a little wife well willd, are great riches. Written in a copy of the Grete Herbal. (1516). A little farm well tilled, / A little barn well filled, / A little wife well willed / Give me, give me. As adapted by James Hook in The Soldiers Return.

Private credit is wealth, public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JuniusLetter 42. Jan. 30, 1771.

The rich mans son inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn. LowellThe Heritage.

You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be? MartialEpigrams. Bk. XII. Ep. 92.

Those whom we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me.Succor the poor, my sisters,I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me healthWill strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth. Edward Sandford MartinA Little Brother of the Rich.

The little sister of the Poor * * * *The Poor, and their concerns, she has Monopolized, because of whichIt falls to me to labor as A Little Brother of the Rich. Edward Sandford MartinA Little Brother of the Rich.

No, he was no such charlatanCount de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan Full of gasconade and bravado,But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!His was the rental of half HavanaAnd all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,Rich as he was, could hardly holdA candle to light the mines of goldOur Cuban owned. E. C. StedmanThe Diamond Wedding. St. 7.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting . It was very prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it SteeleTatler, No. 203.